Blood, Sweat & Timor; wrapping it up
Australian Mountain Bike magazine publish Blood, Sweat & Timor
The guys at Australian Mountain Bike magazine have done an awesome job on the Tour de Timor story which landed on the shelves this week. It covers everything from the guy who started it all, Dr Horta of course, to the race route and plans for the future [...]
SMH use mushypea photo
Check this out, Ivan makes the front page of the Online Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)! 20 seconds into the video, we can see Ivan during stage 1 riding along the coast from Dili to Baucau.
If you look carefully around 2 min 40s you’ll see a still shot in the video. Jock Cheetham, a [...]
Digicel’s Tour de Timor on You Tube
Digicel (www.digicelgroup.com)were the major commercial sponsors of the Tour de Timor.
“Digicel’s goal is to provide our customers with affordable and innovative mobile communications that fosters personal and professional connections between nations and people”
They put this amazing footage of the weeks riding together, enjoy!
Rubbing shoulders with a world leader
Here’s a picture of Ivan and I with President Jose Ramos-Horta at the Presidential Palace after our interview in Dili. I’m writing up the 8 questions we asked the 60 year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and I must say for our first interview, Ivan and I did great! We’ll be popping some of the [...]
Fun re-living the Tour
It’s Saturday morning and I just got from the beach and Bacinos coffee shop in Manly. I brought the Bacino boys some Timorese coffee we picked up from Dili which seemed to be a hit!
I’m going through the 600 photos and notes I made on the trip today and putting together some stories together for [...]
Back from Timor-Leste
Wow, what an amazing trip! Ivan and I got back late last night after almost two weeks traveling and racing our bikes around Timor-Leste. I wasn’t able to blog on the actual trip as I was riding as well as media so I will try to get some photos and info up here over the [...]
Touch down in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste
We have only been here one day but so far we have:
Sneaked our way in to a press conference for the Timorese press at the Presidential Palace,
Met the race organisers Michael, Mel, Joel and Shaun,
Built up the bikes
Spent the night in a container.
We are now heading west on our own leaving the UN cotton wool [...]
